“Wang Zhixian! Stop pretending to be all sweet and gentle over there. Are you still not going to admit that you threatened me to pretend to be your boyfriend? How long do you plan to keep hiding it?”
As soon as these words were spoken, Su Baihe’s eyes widened in shock.
“What? Pretending? Then… then what about this Guanyin jade pendant?”
Su Baihe was the type who’d fallen headfirst into the money pit. Upon hearing that Xu Fei was just Wang Zhixian’s fake boyfriend, her first concern wasn’t her daughter’s happiness.
Instead, it was the Guanyin jade pendant hanging around her neck!
At this point, Wang Zhixian’s face couldn’t have looked worse. She gritted her teeth and said, “Xu Fei! We’ve reached this point, and you couldn’t just say a few more words to keep it under wraps? Are you telling me you came here today just to expose me?”
Since the bubble had already burst, Wang Zhixian didn’t care anymore and decided to let it all fall apart.
Xu Fei gave a cold laugh, thinking to himself that they’d finally gotten to the point.
“Let me ask you both—what’s your connection to a girl named Lanhua? You’d better come clean with me! Otherwise, I’ll call Zhang Cheng and his people over right now!”
Hearing Xu Fei’s threat, Wang Zhixian and Su Baihe, who had just been acting a bit defiant, suddenly realised the gravity of the situation.
It dawned on them that the only reason Zhang Cheng had let them off earlier was because of Xu Fei’s influence.
If they kept pushing their luck unreasonably, who knew if Xu Fei might actually call Zhang Cheng back!
So Su Baihe quickly leaned in closer. Not only had Xu Fei mentioned Lanhua’s name, but he also pulled up her photo on his phone.
The moment Su Baihe saw the picture, she exclaimed in shock, “This… this child is still alive? I… I thought she was dead!”
Su Baihe sighed heavily and began recounting what had happened back then.
It turned out that when Su Baihe’s family was still happy and intact, one day she went jogging by the moat in the county town and stumbled upon a bundle.
When she bent down to open it, she found a living, breathing baby inside!
Instantly, Su Baihe’s maternal instincts kicked in, and she hurriedly took the baby home.
Back then, her husband was away driving long-haul trucks every year, leaving just her and her daughter, Wang Zhixian, at home.
The arrival of this new life brought a bit more warmth to their small family.
Though Su Baihe wasn’t exactly a saint, she treated little Lanhua well.
She bought the best milk powder for the tiny girl and even took her to the zoo when Lanhua was old enough to start remembering things.
Those were some of Su Baihe’s fondest memories.
But then, during another outing with the two children, Lanhua got lost in the crowd.
After it happened, Su Baihe immediately reported it to the police. While waiting for news, she spent nearly every day crying her eyes out.
But despite her efforts, the child was never found.
It wasn’t until her husband came back and comforted her, saying that since Lanhua was just a foundling anyway, all they could do was pray for her safety and hope she’d grow up well, that Su Baihe finally emerged from her grief.
After hearing all this, Xu Fei rubbed his chin, feeling a pang of disappointment.
He’d thought he’d finally tracked down Lanhua’s family, only to discover that Lanhua had been an abandoned baby, merely picked up by Su Baihe.
As for the elephants and such in Lanhua’s memories, they were likely just faint impressions and fragments from her time living with Su Baihe’s family.
